Stuart Shieber on Economy
Interesting Post by Stuart Shieber about bundels and other nice tricks.
View ArticleAkademie-Verlag and Oldenbourg bought by De Gruyter
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/f5c38c/1165340/De-Gruyter-kauft-Wissenschaftsverlage.html Let’s see how the prices of these books develop. Now Claudia Mainborn’s book about the Copula costs 65€ (250 pages)....
View ArticleUngluing books
There is this new crowd funding service unglue.it that can be used to make books freely available under a creative commons license. People can wish for books. Right owners can start ungluing campaigns...
View ArticleUpdate on DFG Support for Author Pays Models
In an earlier comment to a post by Frank I mentioned that a lot of German universities have funds for author pays models. I now tried to get money from our fund for a paper that will appear in...
View ArticleDe Gruyter’s Business Report
In my post The Cost of Knowledge from a long time ago I did not know the profits of De Gruyter but just made a guess by comparing the prices they charge. In an interview with Sven Fund by Richard …...
View ArticleTime to say goodbye to Elsevier
I just checked the linguistics journals that Elsevier offers: Ampersand Assessing Writing Computers and Composition Discourse, Context and Media English for Specific Purposes Journal of Communication...
View ArticleCanceling the Lingua subscription
I emailed our librarian and asked them whether it would be possible to cancel the Lingua description. She informed me that they canceled the print subscription long time ago and that the online version...
View ArticleSPAM journals
After getting more and more SPAM from journals, I decided to put together a list of journals that send me unsolicited mail and usually demonstrating a real lack of understanding of the field they claim...
View ArticleTypesetting by “Premium Publishers”
You would think that Elsevier makes so much money from selling reference works like the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2006, print: 3949€, 9000 pages) that they could pay a typesetter. No!...
View ArticleThe new (interim) editorial board of Lingua
Lingua has a new editorial board. The journal is run by Prof. Harry Whitaker from Psychology, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan, USA. I wrote an email to him on January 9th, but he did...
View ArticleZombie Lingua, Elsevier and what profit-oriented publishers are good for
Some weeks ago, I was asked to review a paper for Lingua. Lingua is an Elsevier journal. A special one: five years ago the complete board of Lingua and the running editors resigned and recreated the...
View ArticleConcentration in the publishing business
This post tries to collect information about the concentration of market power with science publishers. If you want to contribute, please leave comments stating who bought whom in which year and a URL...
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